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Read the following passage from the Beatle�s song �In My Life� and write an essay about how physical settings have affected your development as a young adult

There are places I remember all my life
Though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone, and some remain

        There are places I remember all my life. These places will never leave my mind and will stay with me forever. The decisions I will make for the rest of my life originate from my childhood, and all those places I remember. Being part of my family, and sharing all the characteristics will affect the way I look at the world.
          My family has not shared too much �quality-time,� therefore I am used to saying �goodnight� on the phone or going to bed without one last hug when I was little. Will this affect how I treat my children? Will I mimic my childhood, or try to change�
            Last summer, I attended a Christian Youth Camp at Montreat College in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Like any place away from home it taught me a little more about how to be more independent and taking care of myself. It also opened my eyes to a whole new world I could never see from Bennettsville. There are teenagers from all around the country that I now know.
           At camp we were assigned to small groups and this is where you got close to a small group of people that you have never seen before. In this group we were encouraged to share our feelings. We would also have activities and games in our groups. I would often question the motives of the activities at first, but it helped me open up to certain people. We had the comfort to know that anything that was said in the group stayed there and that you could trust everyone there. I realized that once I walked away from that circle that I had broadened my horizons and showed people a part of me that no one else knew about.
         Being with my close friends and youth group a great deal has made me grow as a person. Going many places with them has changed me and given me many cherished memories. On trips such as Montreat the whole group shares a bond that no one else sees. While we were at Montreat we were away from home, but were we ever somewhere else?           No one has ever shown me the world the way I see it now. These places will change physically and we will all go our separate ways, but I will carry the characteristics they have made me who I am with me everywhere I go.